For what still might be
characterized as a “student publication,” Kiosk 2 continues to demonstrate just how
the editing of a journal should go. The issue has 22 contributors divided among
its 292 pages, assuring that ample room is accorded to each, even with its
somewhat unusual page size (8½” wide, 7” high).
Of its 22 contributors, only
two are new to me – Ofelia Pérez Sepúlvida
& Carla Faesler, both Mexican poets translated by
Jen Hofer. The first of Sepúlvida’s two poems,
excerpts from a series entitled “Infected the Heart,” immediately makes Hofer’s
implicit argument that the quality of poetry in
